{"id":235,"date":"2020-08-14T20:09:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T20:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usc2020.nextgenradio.org\/?p=235"},"modified":"2020-08-14T20:20:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T20:20:50","slug":"have-you-ever-ran-a-multimedia-marathon-without-ever-leaving-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usc2020.nextgenradio.org\/have-you-ever-ran-a-multimedia-marathon-without-ever-leaving-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Ever Ran A Multimedia Marathon Without Ever Leaving Your Bed?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Welcome to my bed\/office \u2014 this has been my view every morning for the past five days, waiting to be let into Next Gen’s virtual newsroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At the start of this project, they kept telling us that this week would go by in the blink of an eye. I didn\u2019t believe it. I\u2019d been looking forward to this project since March, when it got postponed indefinitely due to COVID-19 I thought the sheer anticipation of it would slow time enough for me to steadily take it all in. But, damn, they were right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll start with my subject, Jarir Saadoun. This was the third remote interview I\u2019ve ever done, and, I\u2019ll just say: it came with the most technical difficulties. There was one point where my interviewee Jarir was speaking to me over the phone in one ear, and web editor Jenn de la Fuente was speaking to me over Zoom in the other ear. I actually felt my head spin. Once we figured it out, however, everything flowed from there. We had an amazing interview. This is the first time I\u2019ve done a story on a fellow Arab-American, and there was something so cool about going into an interview already with some level of cultural relatability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were so many things about his story that he might\u2019ve had to explain were I not a journalist who shared a similar background as him. For example, he was able to drop Arabic phrases or quips familiar to Arab-Americans, and knew I’d get it. It affirmed to me that this is what I should be doing: giving a platform for people from my community to tell their stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jarir Saadoun on Zoom for our interview. Photo taken in between technical difficulties and an amazing interview.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve learned so much. At the start of the week, I was reluctant to use Adobe Audition. I was comfortable with the software I was already using, but our audio engineer Selena Seay-Reynolds encouraged me to give it a shot. She showed me the basics and few tricks here and there, and I felt a little better, but not totally comfortable. Once I started editing my audio, there were definitely times where I got frustrated, and times I had to ask for help. But Selena was right \u2014 I\u2019m coming out of this week with a whole other audio software in my toolbelt, and that feels pretty amazing. I learned that I actually prefer Audition over what I\u2019ve been using.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Me, waiting for Traci Tong to come back to my Zoom breakout room for our second audio edit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve said this several times throughout the week, but Imana Gunawan\u2019s mentorship has kept my head on straight. From her thoughtful edits and constant encouragement, to her cat Diamond’s cameos and bonding over our collection of earrings, I don\u2019t know if I would have made it through the week without her. I\u2019m so grateful to have worked so closely with a media badass who\u2019s also a woman of color who, like Brenda Salinas would say, sees my magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imana Gunawan on Zoom in our breakout room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thank you so much to Next Generation Radio for letting me be part of this project! I’ve learned so much and made memories I’ll never forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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